posted at 9:31 pm on April 8, 2014 by Mary Katharine Ham

Charles Krauthammer, though pleased as the rest of us to watch Carney hoist on the White House’s petard, rightly asserts that judging anyone as engaged in sexist discrimination by this metric is unfair:

“Is there anybody who thinks that Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett and the other important people in this administration are deliberately discriminating against women in the White House? Of course not. In fact, when Jay Carney was asked about this he gave the remarkable answer of ‘well, that’s better than the others are doing. As if he is saying ‘well this White House discriminates against women but we discriminate in moderation.’ The correct answer is that these are not the results of deliberate discrimination by any means,” he said.

Will:

Panelist George Will concurred, but added “it’s the American way if your political party is heavily dependent on the contributions of trial lawyers. That’s what this is a gift to.”

As for Obama’s reckless use of the 77 cent statistic, Will said President Obama is acting as an “intellectual incompetent the way he’s handling as propaganda social science.”

And, more from the department of planks in eyes:

Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), who is leading the Equal Pay Day push by Senate Democrats to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, pays women on his staff far less than he pays men.

Durbin took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to preach on the importance of passing legislation aimed at solving the gender pay gap.

“How serious is equal pay for equal work to working people across America?” said Durbin, “I think it’s critical.”

The average female salary is $11,505 lower than the average male salary in Durbin’s office, according to an analysis of Senate salary data from fiscal year 2013 that showed that more than two-thirds of Democratic Senate offices pay men more than women.

Four of the five highest paid staffers on Durbin’s staff are men, according to the analysis.

Not a single member of the Senate Democrat leadership has a female chief of staff or communications director, the Washington Times points out.

Blowback

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How’s that gender/income inequality/class warfare bullsh!t working out for you and the Democrats Mr. Obama? Isn’t this where Biden or Kerry is supposed to do something more stupid than your administration to take the heat off?

I predict that for some unknown reason when election season really kicks in, Congressional and Senate Democrats staffs are going to see a bunch of males get laidoff and a female get a bump in pay by about 200%.

Too bad the repubics aren’t smart enough to raise hell about the demorat’s “War on Women” with these revelations.

Jackson

It wouldn’t matter.

(1) The pressies aren’t about to side with Republicans on anything.

(2) What point would you have Republicans make? That Dems are discriminating? That treats this dog & pony show as being something valid. The only coherent argument Republicans could make is “The Dems are making it up, manipulating statistics & flat out lying to set us against each other.”

In fact, when Jay Carney was asked about this he gave the remarkable answer of ‘well, that’s better than the others are doing. As if he is saying ‘well this White House discriminates against women but we discriminate in moderation.’ The correct answer is that these are not the results of deliberate discrimination by any means,” he said.

No, Dr. CK, the correct answer is that Carney is a gibbering dingbat who knows about as much about what’s actually happening as Baghdad Bob.

The One didn’t hire him for his ability to figure out what’s actually going on in the White House. He wanted a somewhat more amiable dunce than Gibbs. Which he got.

As for Obama’s reckless use of the 77 cent statistic, Will said President Obama is acting as an “intellectual incompetent the way he’s handling as propaganda social science.”

I agree that The One’s statistics aren’t worth a buck. But Will’s train wreck of a sentence doesn’t exactly engender confidence that he knows what he’s talking about, either. Or is he using German syntax just to show how smart he is?

When I was working in the corporate world, we called this a “sales mix” issue. You have to compare women in like jobs to men. You would never pay someone with little responsibility the same as you would pay a CEO. It’s a freedom of choice issue, isn’t it? Some women choose to take jobs that pay less. This is just a stupid issue.

Sandwiched between Will and Krauthammer’s responses was some typically insipid babble from Mara Liasson. I don’t know why she bothers, if she can’t be honest she should just take a pass.

slickwillie2001 on April 8, 2014 at 10:27 PM

What do you expect from a reporter for the taxpayer funded National Progressive Radio? NPR has been parroting the President and Dem leadership’s equal pay propaganda verbatim for days without even the slightest hint of skepticism or comment from critics. Contrast their partisan cheerleading against the hours of breathless coverage and criticism of every Republican idea no matter how trivial. Eff em.

The “equal pay” squirrel is only one of many fake issues the Dems are going to trot out between now and November. Can’t really blame them though. It’s not like they can run on their record of success at governing.

My new theory is that the Obama White House is storyboarding out a small disaster each day, to make sure the lead story on the Evening News is not the nation crippling disaster of Obamacare. They’ll take a hit on Lois Lerner, Equal Pay, Holder in Contempt or whatever, as long as Obamacare is pushed off the Front Page.